DATES to keep an eye on at
the London Jewish Cultural Centre: forthcoming
lectures in the series how to make money out of the
Holocaust --

(8 Nov) -- on "Ramifications of the Irving
Trial," by Tom Bower; and

(6 Dec) -- on "Why are Jews Hated" a reply to
David Irving's question from Prof. Hyam
Maccoby.

NOTE: Journalist Tom
Bower did not attend the trial.

The first
venue is a Chancellor's Forum in downtown
Philadelphia on October 30. Sweet phrase:
Chancellor is redolent of Hitler's Reich; forum of
ancient Rome. Evidently there is to be a bit of
Nazi pomp, and a bit of feeding to the
lions.

AR, Sherman
Oaks -- REVISIONISTS, historians, and
lawyers will be bearing down on the Philadelphia Bar
Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 30,
2000 for a conference being held to celebrate the
unprecedented triumph in April 2000 of dragon-slayer
Deborah Lipstadt over British historian David
Irving in the London High Court.

Mr Irving had sued her for
libel. The Judge, Sir Charles Gray QC, found that
much of what she had written in her book Denying the
Holocaust was a pack
of lies, but that other items were true. The judgment
is coming up for appeal.

Lipstadt's brilliant British defence team, whom she
personally selected and single-handed guided to victory
using her acute knowledge of the British legal system and
its ancient laws, has been invited over to the United
States. The Richard Rampton Flying Circus, as cynics are
dubbing it, will go on display to cheering audiences of
lawyers, law students, and Holocaust industry experts.

In the days of ancient Rome, such victorious armies would
drag their prisoners, wrapped in netting, behind their
chariots. No doubt if they had taken any prisoners on this
occasion these sparkling intellectuals would chain them to
the back of pick-ups and drag them through the dusty streets
of Philadelphia.

The are two blemishes on their celebrations, not
mentioned in the any of the invitations so far received by
Action Report:

David Irving is neither in captivity nor muzzled;
and

he has rebounded from his April 12 setback, when Gray
handed down a judgment that Mr Irving tersely dismissed
in the courtroom with one word "Perverse".

His counsel have now lodged with the British Court of
Appeal, within time, a formal application
for permission to appeal. Judge Gray attempted to prevent
it, by denying Mr Irving leave to appeal, in the crowded
courtroom on April 12.

"The grounds for the appeal,"
says Mr Irving, "which are also the grounds for the
application, are concise and irrefutable: the judge
simply got it wrong, in both fact and law, on point after
point after point."

One
example: Judge Gray dismissed the 1942 Schlegelberger
Memorandum, which Mr Irving first brought to the world's
attention in the 1970s, as being of dubious authenticity.
The original has been in Reich Justice Ministry files ever
since 1942 however, and is still in the custody of German
government archives.

If the memorandum is not fake (and clearly it is not) it
shows that Adolf Hitler wanted the final solution
postponed until after WW2. There is no other possible
reading, because that is what the document says. "Judge Gray
chose to ignore it," says Irving, "and that is what the
appeal courts are for."

Mr
Irving, whom the traditional enemies of the truth have been
hoping to see ruined before he can get the doors of the
appeal court open, is writing in the United States -- 8,000
miles beyond their reach. It is these enemies' worst
nightmare. In the last three months he has completed not one
but two one-thousand page blockbuster works of history --
the revised Hitler's
War, the millenium edition; and the second sensational
volume of his biography Churchill's
War; both will go into production for Parforce UK Ltd in
the last months of this year.

David Irving says he will approach
his worldwide circle of supporters as soon as the Court of
Appeal formally grants permission for the appeal, to build
up for him a safe £100,000 ($160,000) fighting fund to
see the battle through to final victory, a battle which has
gripped the attention of the world's media. "The
appeal hearing will be brief and painless," he says. "At its
end, I shall be vindicated, and Steven Spielberg
(right) and his moneyed cohorts will have to fork out a
great deal more than they bargained for."

Death
Threats

Through his worldwide circle he has been monitoring the
activities of his opponents since this trial and building up
dossiers on each of them. Lipstadt herself has been rebuked
by her defence lawyers for having uttered public death
threats against Mr Irving in ritual Hebrew terms when
speaking with journalists in Tel Aviv. Calling for "hits" on
opponents in litigation is not a tactic encouraged by the
High Court in the U.K.

It
has turned out that not only were her expert witnesses less
neutral than they claimed -- Professor Hajo Funke, of
Berlin university, Lipstadt's "expert on extremism", has so
far granted only one interview
on the trial, to the East German communist daily Neues
Deutschland, which used to applaud the gunning-down of every
refugee trying to cross the Berlin Wall -- but that they are
earning fortunes from their promotional activities in
Richard Rampton's Flying Circus.

Their raison d'etre in Philadelphia is: "The defense team
consider that the legal, political, and moral issues raised
by the case are so important that they have come to the
United States to discuss these matters."

The public spiritedness of these British lawyers, who are
coming -- no doubt at their own expense -- on this selfless
task of educating their former colonials on the intricacies
of British libel law, is commendable.

PERHAPS by chance, they have chosen to open their
performance in Philadelphia on October 30, 2000 -- the
eightieth anniversary, to the day, of New York Governor
Glynn's newspaper article on the World War 1 "holocaust" of
six million Jews.

The title of their first "dog and pony" act, which they
have announced they will bring to "various parts of the
country," is: "How British Holocaust revisionist David
Irving Lost his Libel Action." The venue is a
Chancellor's Forum in downtown Philadelphia on
October 30. "Sweet phrase," says Mr. Irving, "Chancellor --
a bit redolent of Hitler's Reich; forum -- ancient Rome.
Evidently there is to be a bit of Nazi pomp, and a bit of
feeding to the lions."

Among
the trapeze-artistes performing their stunts at the
Philadelphia Bar Association at 12:15 on October 30, in the
heart of downtown Philadelphia, are Mr Richard
Rampton QC, himself -- the wheezy, chain-smoking trial
lawyer whom Lipstadt's brain alone enabled to mastermind her
brilliant legal defence -- and his buxom, bewigged junior,
Heather Rogers, who liked to give the impression in
court that she, and not Professor Lipstadt, had done all the
hard work; also listed is a Tobias Jersak, a
"historical consultant" from Cambridge, whose name is
otherwise unknown but may be an anagram.

Rampton and Roegrs can well afford the air fares. Humble
Emory university scholar Lipstadt has dipped into her annual
salary deeply, paying them fees
totalling £509,989.36, around a million dollars,
for their work done at her dictate by April 11, 2000.

The Hon. Norma L Shapiro, a local District Court
judge, will moderate the ninety-minute Philadelphia forum,
and there are rumours that Mr Irving himself has already
obtained an invitaion and is to fly over from the west
coast. He will ask Professor Robert Van Pelt -- a
professor of architecture at the university of Waterloo,
Ontario, who was paid a quarter of a million dollars for his
neutral testimony -- once again if he has yet found the
manholes
in the roof of Crematorium II at Auschwitz, which his
eye-witnesses all described as having been used to tip the
Zyklon B into the "gas chamber" beneath.

In
his report,
Pelt (right: he confessed in court to masquerading as
an architect with no professional architectural
qualifications whatsoever) said the "holes" can not now be
seen. The massive concrete roof slab itself can, but not the
holes. As things turned out in court, it did not matter that
he was unable to shed any light on this vital discrepancy
under cross examination earlier this year [transcript,
Day 9, January 25, page 187]; the judge said he
believed the post-war testimony of eye-witnesses, and not
the concrete evidence.

Absent from Philadelphia: the only historian of merit in
the entire defence team, Professor Christopher
Browning, who was turned down for the chair of
Holocaust history at Harvard on the grounds that he was not
Jewish. Browning was paid
a tenth as much as the other "experts," but he was the
only one who in Mr Irving's opinion responded well under
cross examination, as he was clearly a real master of the
subject.

In
fact, as has been pointed out, on page 52 of Browning's most
recent book, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German
Killers (Cambridge University Press, 2000), a collection
of the George Macauley Trevelyan Lectures delivered by him
at Cambridge University in the Lent Term of 1999, Prof.
Browning includes a reference to Mr Irving's standard work
"Hitler's War", as the source for the phone call from
Himmler to Heydrich on November 31, 1941, from Hitler's
bunker, seeking to halt the execution of a trainload of
Berlin Jews.

"Browning has woken up and smelt
the coffee, and it ain't Maxwell's," says Mr
Irving, pointing to a warning by the professor on page 33
of the same book that "in future" Holocaust historians
must "get the facts right", because, says Browning,
"there are people who do not wish us well. They stand
malevolently prepared to exploit our professional
mistakes and shortcomings for their own political
agenda."

[On which point: several website readers have just
pointed out that the "smoke" in the enlarged version of the
faked
Auschwitz photo on the Simon Wiesenthal website has now
vanished -- but it still remains in the thumbnail
photo!]

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Philadelphia Function, October 30, 2000 [details]:
An appropriate response to the Philadelphia function is
being organised by Lincoln Herbert, phone or fax 610 622
2669. | To register for the function call the organisers
tollfree at 800 247 4724. On the day of the function
registration will begin at 11:45 a.m., and the conference
organisers invite people to "bring your lunch and join us."
Presumably the PBI will discourage attendees from bringing
raw eggs -- the missile of choice used by Professor
Lipstadt's army of supporters outside the High Court on
April 12 against Mr Irving.

Upcoming lectures

The end of the first
stage of the Lipstadt trial has generated a lecture industry
of its own.

AT the Hannah-Arendt-Institute in Dresden, Prof.
Dr. Peter
Longerich, a German-born historian of the Royal
Holloway College at the University of London and "Director
of the Research Centre for the Holocaust and
Twentieth-Century History," will lecture at 7 p.m. in an
Auschwitz series, in the Kulturrathaus in Dresden's
Königstrasse 15: his topic is stated as
"Auschwitz-Leugner. Erfahrungen aus dem Londoner
Gerichtsverfahren David Irving gegen Deborah Lipstadt "
[details]

Again we suggest that serious historians, while mindful
of Germany's laws for the suppression of free speech, go
along and take Longerich to task, for example on the
Schlegelberger document. (He does not like that document,
and pretends that it does not exist). In the trial he relied
frequently on a mythical "consensus" as the source of his
knowledge, i.e. what historians agree on. Under cross
examination, Longerich was unable to tell the court whether
the fact that historians with different opinions are thrown
into jail in Germany may have skewed the consensus in any
way.

Lipstadt abandons
Trappist Silence

While in the courtroom in London Lipstadt pleaded the
British equivalent of the Fifth Amendment, drawing on her
right to refuse to speak or testify on oath. Since then this
mastermind of the London trial triumph has not been idle,
speaking, sometimes at taxpayer expense, to audiences all
over the United States, where she knows she need not fear
difficult questioning.

Emory University, Atlanta, is particularly involved. The
student newspaper The Emory Wheel stated on October 6, 2000
that nearly 40 percent of Emory is Jewish. On September 11,
the Emory Report, gave advance
notice in Volume 53, No. 3, that Lipstadt, "who returns
to the Emory College classroom this fall after winning a
highly publicized libel suit" would be the featured speaker
along with Rabbi Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva
University, on: "Holocaust Denial: Theological Reflections."
The programme stated: "The discussion will include
Lipstadt's thoughts on religious history and truth."
[see
full subsequent report on the event]

On October 16, she spoke in Houston's Temple Emanu El, in
the Ruth Lack Lecture Series, sponsored by the local
Holocaust Museum:

"Deborah Lipstadt: The internationally
well-known author will give a presentation on her book
and on her recent, highly-publicized court victory over a
Holocaust denier."

A book signing was included.

On October 23 she participated in a Panel Discussion at
which she lectured on her "Triumph Over Holocaust Denial" at
the Borders bookstore at 3025 Kirby Drove, in Houston. The
programme announced "a follow up discussion centering on
Deborah Lipstadt's trial, verdict, and fallout." Panelists
included a lawyer, a theologian, a psychologists, and a
personal friend of Dr. Lipstadt," so the audience is known
to have amounted to at least four. Once again, signed copies
of her book were on sale.

On October 5, Michael
Berger, of the department of religion at Emory (a
department which, records show, closely monitored Mr
Irving's website during the tragic days of the days of his
daughter: one wonders why), and Michael
Broyde, of the school of law, sent out invitations
to a new Lipstadt spectacular which is to be held at Emory
on November 1-2, a discussion on Holocaust denial law and
historical truth, as part of their Reconciliation Symposium
[details].

The local millionaire Tenenbaum family and the School of
Law are sponsoring this function, which is to address issues
raised by the trial: libel law, academic freedom and Jewish
identity. On November 1, 2000 Lipstadt's chief ringmaster
Richard Rampton ("Lipstadt's successful English barrister")
is slated to open the conference -- jumping through the
hoops on the law behind the trial.

He is in good company. On November 2 Anita
Bernstein and David Biedermann will address the
situation in various countries around the world -- thanks to
the Internet, the debate is now out of control. Stanley
Fish will address, perhaps appropriately, the lunch
colloquium on November 2, discussing "Holocaust denial" in
the context of academic freedom on university campuses -- in
other words how to prevent free speech on this one vital
issue without actually seeming to.

On the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish identity, what
might be called the Norman
Finkeelstein memorial lecture will be delivered by
Joel Levy, of the Estee Lauder foundation in Germany,
the body in charge of the cosmetic repairs to the Auschwitz
site, and "our own Deborah Lipstadt" will inevitably speak
too. [For information contact Eliza Ellison at
404 727 0699.]

Finally, on Sunday November 5, this industrious scholar,
Lipstadt, is to speak at Emory University's Family Events
weekend: her talk, which will be from 11:00 a.m. - 11:30
a.m., will be "Perspectives from a British Courtroom:
Confronting Lies, Deception, and David Irving," in the
Institute for Jewish Studies Winship Ballroom. We urge all
our friends to attend, and don't forget to take a packed
lunch. [access
the schedule]